Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of research and education studies, responds to N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger’s recent critique of UNC education schools and state government spending on teaching assistants. Stoops offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 654).
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